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- From: efp90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Pritchard EF)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: HD floppies
- Message-ID: <14347@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 19:03:33 GMT
- References: <1993Jan22.171934.26822@ncsu.edu>
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- In <1993Jan22.171934.26822@ncsu.edu> jmbrantl@eos.ncsu.edu (JOHN MICHAEL BRANTLY) writes:
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- >Hi all. I have a question- I have looked far and near for a High Density
- >floppy for my amiga 1200. I know applied eng. used to make them, but they
- >were not 'standard' hd formats; and they wouldn't read MeSsy Dos HD's...
- >is there a company out there making external high densities ??? please note
- >the 1200 uses the same externals that can be used w/ 500/2000, etc.........
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- >IF NOT, then is there a hack to use an A4000 replacement drive externally??
- >The 4000 drive is exactly what I need for MS-dos xfers...
- >thanks!!!!!!!
-
- Hmmmm.
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- I just got a replacement A1200 compatable PC880B drive for my A1200,
- and it has full HD mechanism in it, i.e. including the HD hole sensor.
- I tried formatting a HD disk in the drive, with the result that the
- drive spun at half the speed, formatted at half the speed, and
- produced a completely standard 880k floppy. Bah!
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- E.F.Pritchard ///
- efp90@uk.ac.soton.ecs \\\/// Amiga I seriously need something
- University of Southampton \xx/ to go on this side of my
- England. signature, any ideas?
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